after all, i repeat, the baby boomers are about to retire. under these circumstances any credible economists would be telling you we should be reducing debt, not increasing it. we're being asked to increase the debt to almost $9 trillion. so there's a lot of politics going on here, and what i'd like to do, most of the questions i had to ask have been asked, so i'd like to just go over a couple of things to clarify. we've heard a lot of talk about the bush tax cuts and the wars adding to our debt. and i was looking here at revenue as a percentage of gdp. and it's interesting that in the mid '90s when taxes were higher, 1995, for example, revenue as a percentage of g, the p was 18.4%. during the bush years in 2007 after the economy recovered from 9/11, it was 18.5%. so the idea that revenue dipped significantly during the bush years because of tax cuts is just not true. sure, it went down after 9/11. i didn't see 9/11 labeled on this chart, mr. johnson, but i think that is a critical part of the equation. the other thing that i would point out,